Jan. 27-28

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Track 3 - Most Promising Company Award Competition

Overview

Track 3 offers pre-selected, private companies defining the next generation of personalized medicine platforms and technologies the chance to compete towards the PMWC 2014 Most Promising Company Award. Participating companies gain exposure and establish connections with potential partners, clients and investors. Company Competition is co-hosted with SVB & Janssen Labs.

Competition Stages

1Submit

Stage 1: Submit


Company Criteria

Privately-held companies in:

  • Therapeutics
  • Diagnostics
  • Healthtech

Submit
2Screening

Stage 2: Screening


Screening Parameters

 

  • Innovation is disruptive to current standard-of-care, both in cost and effectiveness
  • Strength of team and ability to execute
  • Barriers to competition and strength of IP
  • Expected financial returns for investors

 

Companies notified in ~one week

3 Registration

Stage 3: Registration


Registration Benefits

 

  • 10 min presentation (parallel track)
  • 2 admissions (value $3000)
  • Overview in printed program
  • Exhibition space: 6'x2.5' (upgrades available)
  • Logo on website with link and short description

 

Fee: $1500


4 At The Competition

Stage 4: At The Competition


 

  • Companies present in parallel track 3 to semi-final judges and audience
  • Exhibition space (upgrades available)
  • At end of Day 2, TOP 3 companies are chosen to present in Main Session / Track 1
  • The winner will be voted on by final judges and audience

 

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Current Competitors

Alzheon
Alzheon

Alzheon

Alzheon pursues drug development programs that have previously been tested in extensive efficacy studies in Alzheimer’s disease patients and where new insights can be applied. Website: http://alzheon.com/

Ayasdi
Ayasdi

Ayasdi

Ayasdi’s Insight Discovery Platform helps organizations make groundbreaking discoveries that lead to rapid innovation, faster growth, increased cost savings, and perhaps most importantly, saving lives through breakthroughs in translational medicine. Website: http://www.ayasdi.com/

Carmenta Bioscience
Carmenta Bioscience

Carmenta Bioscience

Carmenta Bioscience is developing Dx tests for preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication and leading cause of death in mothers and newborns. Website: www.carmentabio.com

CellScape
CellScape

CellScape

CellScape offers prenatal genetic testing that is both comprehensive and non-invasive, based on novel methods for isolating fetal erythrocytes from maternal blood for CMA analysis of fetal DNA. Website: www.cellscapecorp.com

Clusterk
Clusterk

Clusterk

Clusterk is a general purpose high-performance, cloud computing platform that allows the customer to save up to 90% and cut down on computing time. Website: N/A

Data4Cure
Data4Cure

Data4Cure

Data4Cure’s Biomedical Intelligence™ Platform transforms complex genomic and clinical data into actionable insights to guide research and discovery in personalized medicine. The platform is informed by a data-driven map of the cell continuously updated directly from hundreds of thousands of molecular measurements of cell structure and function. Website: http://data4cure.com/

DNA SEQ
DNA SEQ

DNA SEQ

DNA SEQ provides reports that match the patient's genomic profile to targeted therapies using unique crystal based filtering methodology. Website: http://www.dna-seqalliance.com

Epic Sciences
Epic Sciences

Epic Sciences

Epic's platform robustly identifies & molecularly characterizes circulating tumor cells to enable optimal patient selection for clinical trials or development of approved diagnostics for therapy selection and resistance monitoring in cancer. www.epicsciences.com

GeneCentric
GeneCentric

GeneCentric

GeneCentric is a commercial stage start-up focused on delivering clinically meaningful diagnostics. Their first commercialized test (HistoPlusSM, LabCorp) is an mRNA signature for improved diagnosis of lung cancer subtypes. Website: www.genecentric.com

GeneYouIn
GeneYouIn

GeneYouIn

GeneYouIn’s product platform PillCheck is a mobile application that seamlessly links your genetic data with FDA drug labels and provides personalized recommendations on drug use to reduce the risk of adverse side effects. Website: www.geneyouin.ca

HealthTell
HealthTell

HealthTell

HealthTell, Inc. has developed a simple, accurate, and inexpensive test which can be performed with only a single drop of blood. This technology has already been demonstrated to work for over 30 diverse illnesses, ranging from cancer to infectious disease. Website: http://www.healthtell.com/

iNanoBio
iNanoBio

iNanoBio

iNanoBio is developing a $1000 genome sequencer and pre-symptomatic disease diagnostics for personalized healthcare of the future. Website: http://www.inanobio.com/

Mission Bio
Mission Bio

Mission Bio

Mission Bio provides instruments for high throughput analysis and enrichment of cell samples based on nucleic acid biomarkers. Website: N/A

NewCo
NewCo

NewCo

A full-service company providing rapid, mobile machine-learning tools for families and clinicians to navigate the complexity of reaching and managing an autism diagnosis. Website: NA

Neurotrack
Neurotrack

Neurotrack

Neurotrack’s technology is a computer-based visual cognitive test that may be able to help physicians predict Alzheimer’s disease three to six years before symptoms appear. Website: http://www.neurotrack.com/

Numedii
Numedii

Numedii

Numedii uses big data technology to identify drugs that have a higher probability of therapeutic benefit, de-risk these through preclinical and clinical proof of concept studies and partner with companies to bring these drugs to market. Website: www.numedii.com

NVIGEN
NVIGEN

NVIGEN

NVIGEN is a nanobiotech built upon a proprietary Nanoparticle-Imaging-Delivery platform to enable biomedical breakthroughs with precisely tailorable nanoparticles for research, diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Website: http://www.nvigen.com/

Quantum Biosystems
Quantum Biosystems

Quantum Biosystems

Quantum Biosystems seeks to deliver rapid, sample prep free DNA and RNA sequencers, increasing throughput by an order of magnitude and similarly reducing costs. Website: http://www.quantumbiosystems.com/en/index.html

T2 Biosystems
T2 Biosystems

T2 Biosystems

T2 Biosystems is developing a new class of clinical diagnostics powered by T2MR, the world’s first direct detection technology that delivers superior sensitivity at unmatched speed to guide more effective clinical decision-making. Website: www.t2biosystems.com

Teselagen
Teselagen

Teselagen

TeselaGen is building a bioCAD/CAM rapid prototyping system for biology in order to provide a design-build-test-evolve platform for automated combinatorial DNA assembly, meeting customers’ needs for well-managed, scalable, and very low-cost DNA construction and assembly. Website: http://www.teselagen.com/

Tiatros
Tiatros

Tiatros

Tiatros moves the workflow processes to coordinate healthcare to a secure mobile cloud, where everyone involved has access to the necessary information and people, smoothing out clinical workflows and adding a social layer to improve healthcare efficiency. Website: www.tiatros.com

Transplant Genomics
Transplant Genomics

Transplant Genomics

TGI is commercializing tests that detect early signs of kidney graft injury, distinguish between actionable causes, and enable optimization of therapy. Lead test analyzes expression levels of 200 genes and uses proprietary algorithms to classify grafts as stable, rejecting, or experiencing dysfunction caused by factors other than immune rejection. Website: http://transplantgenomics.com/

Past Winners

T2 Biosystems
T2 Biosystems

T2 Biosystems

T2 Biosystems is developing a new class of clinical diagnostics powered by T2MR, the world’s first direct detection technology that delivers superior sensitivity at unmatched speed to guide more effective clinical decision-making. Website: www.t2biosystems.com

Horizon Discovery
Horizon Discovery

Horizon Discovery

Horizon Discovery Limited has developed a translational genomics platform and drug discovery toolbox that enables the development of new therapies targeted at the genetic features that drive an individual’s cancer.

Auxogyn

Auxogyn, Inc.

Country: U.S.A.

Focus area: Improving the percentage of in vitro fertilization procedures that result in a live birth.

Nodality

Nodality, Inc.

Country: U.S.A.

Focus area: Cancer and autoimmune disease predictive tests.

QuantaLife
Quantalife

Quantalife, Inc.

Country: U.S.A.

Focus area: Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) systems

Acquired by Bio-Rad for $162M 3 years after starting

AIT

Applied Immune Technologies Ltd.

Country: Israel

Focus area: T-Cell Receptor-Like (TCRL) antibodies



Partial List of Past VCs and Financial participants

 

7Health Ventures
Aberdare Ventures
AccelusHealth Partners
Advanced Technology Ventures
Anthem Venture Partners
Burril & Company
Caldwell Partners Intl.
Casdin Capital
Charter Life Sciences
Claremont Creek Ventures
CMEA
Cowper Street Angels
Crosslink Capital
DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Edgewood Venture Partners
EDventure Holdings
Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
Evolvence India Life Science Fund
Geisinger Ventures
GE Ventures
Giza Venture Capital
Goldman Sachs
Great Point Partners
Halo Fund III
HealthTech Capital
Horizon Ventures
IBM Venture Capital Group
Intel Capital
Interwest Partners
Janssen Healthcare Innovation
Khosla Ventures
KPCB
Lazard
Life Tech Capital
Lighthouse Capital Partners
Longitude Capital
MDV
Medica Venture Partners
MedStars
Merck & Co.
Miramar Venture Partners
Morgan Stanley
Morgenthaler Ventures
MPM Capital
Muir Partners
New Biology Ventures, LLC
Oppenheimer & Co.
Opus Three
Orbimed
Perella Weinberg Partners
Physic Ventures
Pitango
Prolog Ventures
Prospect Venture Partners
QB3 Garage/Innovation Network
Qualcomm Ventures
RBC Capital Markets
Rock Health
SAP Ventures
SDL Ventures
Sequoia Capital
Silicon Valley Bank
Skyline Ventures
Sutter Hill Ventures
SVB Accelerator
Telegraph Hill Partners
The Angels' Forum
Third Rock Ventures
TPG Biotech
TriplePoint Capital
UK Trade & Investment
US Commercial Trade Service and Export
USVP
Uzia Initiatives & Management
venBio
Vivo Ventures

 

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